According to the 2013 Global Fire Power Index, Kuwait ranks 63 worldwide in military strength. It’s a low ranking but thats because the index doesn’t take into consideration foreign military support. The highest ranking GCC country is Saudi Arabia in 27th place. Below are some interesting numbers related to Kuwait’s military:

Judging by the amount of contractors and weapons salesman in this country the tanks are probably the best America is willing to sell. The questions should be how many personnel can actually operate those tanks.

They will continue to think so and continue to consider the majority of Indians in the Middle East as “MENIAL LABOR FORCE” ~! If only instead of spending a whopping 35% ++ of its annual budget on defense they could have allocated / channelised towards alleviating poverty in India. And this comes from an Indian.

India can tame Pakistan at a place and time of its own choosing. Lets see if we can talk with the same passion when it comes to China??!!??

Point is, everyone in the world is trying to ammase weapons of deadly force but who the effs gonna use it? You? Me? Thats a crock of bull!!!

In times to come (or we are already there) its the economic prowess which nations shall strive for and that will inturn be a ‘No No’ sign of Invasion or aggression unless the world wants to go down in depression economically for years to come…

A man once said ‘its the juice in the head not in the sack that leads you to success!’

Economic growth is important.. i see where you getting.. but if India is not in a position to cut short its military supplies.

Pakistan & china are just waiting for an opportunity to pounce.

right now none of the them has a guarantee of beating India. India has nuclear weapons.. remember?

with Pakistan continiously sending people accross the border in form of terrorists (islamis militants as they are called), china doing everything in their hand to spy on India (the chinese mobiles with spying softwares for instance) and Kashmir issue (which never seems to end).. India is not in a position to divert its attension away from military.

India could eradicate poverty within a span of 5-10 years provided the politicians put the country ahead of their pockets.

India tends to rely rather heavily on Russian equipment. Russian stuff is usually shot down or blown up in the first few hours of any war. If you don’t believe me, ask any Egyptian, Serb, Libyan, Syrian, Afghans or Iraqi. Any time Russian stuff meets the Western stuff, Russian stuff loses badly.

India USED to tend to rely on Soviet Era war fare machinery and they made the best use of it. The very same hardware destroyed the most indigenously built Patton tank in the 70’s!! So your theory Russian / Soviet Hardware of not performing well is BS.

If it did lose badly to ‘Western Stuff’ as you say, no wonder the cold war ended by both sides choosing to step down! If I go as per your reasoning then wouldnt it have been a cake walk for America to trample over Soviets / Russia?

p.s. For the past 5 years India has opened its doors to France, Britian, Is***l, American, Brazilian and South African Military Equipment. The amount it has spent on purchases can easily equal to a GDP of a nation you and I know TIMES 3!~

What do they mean when they say 1.3million fit for service? Are they counting the expat population as part of this? They are under the assumption the expats are gonna form part of the defense force after all what has been going on? Lol.

Kuwait had already been alone when the first war started. All expats left the country, the remaining few were Iraqi allies and took over control of Kuwaiti government organizations (like hospitals, electricity and water utilities etc).

America supported us because we paid them, cash money, in advance… $200 billion USD. Not to mention that Kuwait sold most of sovereign investments in Europe which was earning the country more than its oil exports (and at some point Kuwait was able to control the economy of some european states).

our freedom didn’t come cheap… no one wants to help us for free… and then people wonder why Kuwaitis are arrogant with foreigners… maybe its because the fact that people “speak to us” only because of our money!

Well.. seems like you were born after the war or you were just a tiny lil toad during the war.

not all expats left during the war.. not all expats were iraqi allies…

this comes from a man whose parents were shot at.. and whose mom had a piece a metal stuck in her nostril for a good 15 years as a result of the shooting.

why were they shot at??? coz they were celebrating Kuwaits freedom when it was announced in the radio.. just to find a iraqi checkpoint aiming at the car full of Kuwaiti flags.

for your kind info… Many Kuwaites ran away from Kuwait during the war. they were not there for their own countries cause. and there were many Kuwaities living with the expats so that the iraqis think they are one of the expats.

oh yeah.. a good bunch of Kuwaities are rude to the foreigners.. let me be very specific.. Asian foreigners.

i dont see you guys being rude to the westerners… why??? arnt they here for the money?

people speak to you only for your money??? so how do you pay?? by words, sentences, paragraphs or conversation? :P

Few years ago they would have ranked Syria right next to Egypt. Now, its far far below even Saudi Arabia.

The truth is, the ranking posted is merely showing how much each country has in vehicles and personnel. In reality, most of the vehicles are out of service and substandard, most personnel are not very well trained and almost impossible to call them in and so the true ranking would be way much different.

its amazing how so many people love hate kuwait . If you dont like the place leave and find a place you like better . And lets not pretend that only kuwaitie’s look down at indians and Pakistanis etc , have you even been to India or Pakistan . These countries are extremely racist and class oriented . In fact in Dubai where there are very few Gulf Arabs or Locals guess who looks down at them there ?? You guessed it , the westerners .

Most of the comments on this crap blog are extremely narrow minded and are made by people with very little going on in their lives . In fact I hope most of the whiners on this blog who are living in Kuwait get deported for their own good so they can get a life and DEAL .

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